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Pretty sure I've drawn this cartoon before..probably every year for the last 40 years or so.....
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and, in my case, drawing our cartoons....
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Here's a Christmas card, not.......
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If we really don't want asylum seekers then make them Irish a.s.a.p. so they can emigrate like everyone else.....
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Draw it and it shall happen - from 2019
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Here's my favourite D'O'Malley cartoon from when he was trying to encourage Charlie to do the decent thing....
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5 years
Is the bus they have been thrown under the red one with the lie about the NHS on the side, or one that used to be made in Northern Ireland before the government let it go bust?
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I forgot to include the fella from Hungary Draw him in yourself.
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The photo-op that launched a thousand cartoons. Here's my contribution.
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1 year
Yesterday our neighbouring island's government thought its priority was to get the oil companies to sell oil cheaper.....they also thought Brexit was a good idea.
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Britain..just a big prison really.
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Very few other rain forests are available.
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2 years
Welsh (possibly),American (Spanish? Potuguese?),Scottish.....and Irish
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And here's the cartoon I didn't get to finish, thank goodness..if the Greens had missed the chance to do something..
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fools rush in..that would be me, so....
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4 years
Customs is the problem..they have strange customs in NI.....
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2 years
and to you too....
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Martyn Turner
4 years
Let me repeat; if not now, when?
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1 year
Well the good news is that Ryanair's new planes will chuck out 16 per cent (i think they said, open to correction) less greenhouse gases when they arrive. So it's all sorted then....
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This cartoon idea was stolen from a Dublin Opinion cover from the late 60s, I think. I have no idea what the original text was, just the sentiment. Plus ca change...
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4 years
It's a bit of a stretch...
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Don't think of them as illegal immigrants. Think of them as potential lorry drivers, vegetable pickers, care home workers.....
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4 years
the lord moves in incredibly bizarre ways.....so he does
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5 years
Dear potential government, please try and be inclusive, for a change....
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5 years
Don't get in what the Guards used to call 'your veh-icle'...
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4 years
Ad to run later in the week. Please retweet if you can....
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4 years
Today's essay on Fianna Fail. If you need a party to let you down they will never let you down.
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4 years
This time I didn't mind pastiching the actual photo..just didn't do it that well...
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4 years
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
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1 year
Holidays now. for a few weeks.cartoons occasionally when I get bored..
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5 years
Trump knows who is to blame..."Everyone else!"
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4 years
If not now, when?
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1 year
And here is the cartoon I would have drawn on Wednesday, if i hadn't been playing golf...
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2 years
you wait years for a cartoon with a graph on it and then two come along at once...
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1 year
Depressing but tomorrow a cartoon on the Covid Enquiry in the UK might be a bit of light relief
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4 years
Maybe visitors could wear face masks made of their country's flag. Then we could, appropriately, give some a wider berth.
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5 years
Goscinny, the writer of Asterix, died over 30 years ago when having a stress test . I think we are all having a stress test at the moment.
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Today's
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There'll be a PhD thesis in toilet paper hoarding at the end of this..
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According to the Green List we shouldn't visit Russia. But that doesn't mean Russia won't find a way of visiting you....
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There's a chap wot buys a paper about the same time as me who doesn't wear a mask.he wears a balaclava. It's not a great look for those of us who lived in Belfast in the 70s....
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There's no fool like a fossil fuel fool
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Of course satire has muddled on..let's hope humanity does too...
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10 months
THis is on the oped page today but fails to mention that it is the COVER of the CALENDAR which will be given away with the paper NEXT TUESDAY..excuse the shouting. Please pass this on to anyone you think may care. Thank you. Martyn
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3 years
oops..forgot..
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Today's public service announcement.
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4 years
Should be sunny for your walk around the garden.....
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3 years
you'd call it a car crash but nothing is moving......
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2 years
getting boris done
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Santa clauses...
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taking time off from working on the calendar (!) to draw an obligatory tory cartoon
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I seem to be drawing (badly) a load of boats these days..well, practice will make average....
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today's brief lecture
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Nobody I know, of course..
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1 year
and that Barbie probably drove a gas guzzler
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2 years
I once appeared on the BBC, worked for the BBC, 1973 I think it was..so this probably breaks their guidelines
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5 years
I think I have done a variation on this cartoon during each of the last 10 elections. What does that say? (Apart from the fact I should retire and that I'm repeating myself).
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4 years
as British as Finchley, not....
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This from 1994 into today's Irish Times. John Hume never gave up on the Provos long after everyone else had despaired. And he was right, of course. Jaw Jaw is always better than War War...
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Sent for my new Irish passport yesterday. Wonder when it'll get used...
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today's bad joke(s)
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Among OECD countries Ireland has the largest percentage of emigrants..about 17.5% of the adult population...
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Today's wordy slice of misery...
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have both for safety..apply a little of the alcohol to your arm just before you get jabbed....
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4 years
the dead elephant in the room.....
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I'll just sit here and be patient, rather than go out and run the risk of being a patient...
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They also retire early if they have hard jobs in France...gendarmes, train drivers etc. Cartoonists, like here, work until they drop.
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Just as I start trying to draw E***n R**n it looks like I'll have to learn to draw C*******e M****n....
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1 year
Now we know who is to blame
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3 years
today's
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not that I've anything against New York, of course..one of my best friends comes.....
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and that would lead to the demanded demilitarisation too....
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